Lane 1 - NBC Sports posts "For Katie Ledecky, starting college means riding a bike. Katie Ledecky returned home from Rio and got on her bike. Stanford prohibits freshmen from having cars on campus. Ledecky, now a five-time Olympic champion, still doesn’t have a driver’s license anyway. So the college-bound swimmer took her three weeks between the Olympics and move-in to acquaint with life on land on two wheels."

Lane 3 - Yahoo posts "Sports star 'targeted' in growing South Korea scandal. Park Tae-Hwan is the latest figure to be caught up in an affair that could see President Park Geun-Hye impeached. The president is accused of colluding with her former confidante, Choi Soon-Sil, who allegedly leveraged her personal relationship with Park to coerce donations from big firms to two non-profit foundations which were then used for Choi's personal gain."

Lane 4 - Reuters posts "Hungary fears feuding swimmers may undermine Olympic chances. Hosszu accuses Gyarfas of running the sport in Hungary in an authoritarian and opaque manner. Gyarfas, who has headed the association with only a brief break since 1993, denies the accusations of mismanagement."

Lane 1 - ESPN W posts "A good rivalry brewing between Ledecky, Manuel. Ledecky has replaced Phelps as the most riveting figure in U.S. swimming. But as scintillating as her first three months at Stanford have been -- starting with the fact she set an NCAA or American record in every race she swam through Nov. 15 -- there was another woman sharing the red carpet with her at the Marriott Marquis hotel who was also impossible to ignore."

I will admit about half way during the IM Set I was ready to give up. My body was beat. But pushed it and finished it. Luckily the intervals gave me plenty of rest to keep going. At 3,000 yards that is the most I've swam in one workout all year long.

My Progress for Go The Distance 2016

Month

Total Distance

Jan

0.99 miles (=1,750 yards, =1,600 meters)

Mar

2.73 miles (=4,800 yards, =4,389 meters)

Aug

5.20 miles (=9,150 yards, =8,367 meters)

Sep

8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)

Oct

8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)

Nov

10.51 miles (=18,500 yards, =16,916 meters)

Total

36.19 miles (=63,700 yards, =58,247 meters)

Yesterday I said it was my goal to swim 17,500 yards this month up from the previous goal of 15,000 yards. Now I'm aiming for 20,000 yards!

Lane 2 - Page Six posts "Olympic swimmer recalls near-death drowning experience. When Jones’ mom took him for swimming lessons: “It took five different teachers to get comfortable. I started to learn at the YMCA, then [the Newark Swim Team] really cultivated my swimming skills.”

Lane 3 - Sporting News posts "Michael Phelps struggling to comprehend Olympic success. "Honestly it'll take years before I can fully comprehend everything that has happened in my career," he said Monday night at USA Swimming's Golden Goggles Awards."

Lane 4 - TODAY posts "Joseph Schooling calls for better support for local athletes. “When I race, what’s on my chest? It’s not my name, it’s the Singapore flag. Do you think it’s fair my parents pay all this money and suffer for me to represent my country? That’s their decision to support me, there should be better support if a person is serious and competitive enough to change their lifestyle drastically to try to bring glory and honour to our country."